>>>Actually, no. I don't have numbers. It just seems to be something I know (or knew) from my time playing ball. It was one of those things that everybody just 'knew'.
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>>>When I say, my time playing ball, I have to clarify that I never played professional ball. I had an invitation to a travelling tryout here in Toronto, conducted by the then Milwaukee Braves, and I had a few bird dogs talking to me, but that was both a long time (think Milwaukee Braves), and a different life ago.
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>>The Milwaukee Braves, yup, that does date it, but that's very cool. Obviously you were better than most of us ever were.
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>>You would not believe how much of my head is filled with useless baseball trivia. My all-time favorite is about the year Lou Gehrig knocked in 102 runs .... on the road.
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>Everybody interested in baseball trivia knows who Gehrig replaced at first base for the Yankees. A more interesting question, at least to me, is who did Babe Ruth replace in the Yankee outfield?

Wally Pipp had the most famous headache in baseball history. His substitute only replaced him for 2130 games.

George Halas.